This week, Rock Health, a full-service venture fund dedicated to digital health released the findings from their national survey on the consumer adoption trends in digital health. The report, "Digital Health Consumer Adoption: 2015" produced by Teresa Wang and Malay Gandhi with help from Kati Dahl surveyed 4,000 consumers on their attitudes attitudes towards data privacy and sharing within the healthcare ecosystem. The report identifies six overarching categories of digital health that
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Rock Health: Digital Health Funding Tops $3.3B in Q3 2015
Digital health funding has exceed 2014's record breaking year reaching $3.3B representing 30% TTM growth, according to Rock Health, a full-service venture fund dedicated to digital health. In a blog post, Rock Health reported that the average deal size is the largest to date at $15.8M, despite deal flow down 9% compared to 2014. Only 8 digital health companies made up over 50% of the quarter's total funding. The report produced by Teresa Wang and Rita Rajan with help from Malay Gandhi
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Rock Health Expands to NYC, Announces 3 New Investments
Rock Health, provider of full-service funding to promising entrepreneurs breaking into healthcare is expanding to the East Coast with the opening of a brand new office in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of NYC. In conjunction with the new NYC office, Rock Health also announced it has added three new East Coast companies to its portfolio. These companies will join Rock Health's existing portfolio of East Companies: Aptible (NYC), Cardiio (Boston), Docphin (NYC), Kit Check (DC), Neumitra
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Rock Health’s Halle Tecco Talks Why Gender Diversity Matters in Healthcare
Are women workers valued in the healthcare? Not enough, apparently. Rock Health’s latest report: The State of Women in Healthcare points to some sobering, and perhaps, surprising statistics about women working in today’s healthcare industry. The report, which surveyed more than 400 women across the healthcare sector (including entrepreneurs, investors, industry executives, and healthcare professionals), revealed that women make 80 percent of the personal health decisions for their families,
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Real Estate Developer to Raise $20M to Build Digital Health Startups in San Francisco
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, the largest owner and developer of real estate for the life-sciences industry in the nation wants to raise up to $20 million to build digital health startups in San Francisco, SFGate reports. Last year, the real estate developer announced that it would start three new accelerators nationwide to focused on agriculture, biotech and digital health. The biotech space is already up and running in New York City and has attracted giant pharma companies such as
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Rock Health: Digital Health Funding Tops $4.1B in 2014
Digital health funding surpassed $4.1B in 2014 according to the recent Digital Health Funding: Year in Review 2014 Report by Rock Health. Rock Health, provider of full-service funding to promising entrepreneurs breaking into healthcare has released their Digital Health Funding: Year in Review 2014 Report, an in-depth analysis report of all digital health funding in 2014. The report found digital health funding in 2014 surpassed $4.1B, nearly the total of all three prior years combined, and
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Rock Health: How Predictive Analytics Impacts Patient Care
As data sources and technology advance, algorithms will be able to deliver better, personalized care. Though personalized medicine has yet to deliver on the promise of its powers, its precursor, predictive analytics, has proven effective in many industries and is now focused on transforming healthcare. Dozens of new digital health products have hit the market and $1.9B has flowed into the space since 2011—but what does it take for an algorithm to accurately and reliably impact care? Rock
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Digital Health Funding Surpasses Over $3B in Q3 of 2014
Digital health funding has officially surpassed the $3B mark in Q3 of 2014 representing over 100% year over year growth, according to report from Rock Health, a full service seed fund for digital health startups. The report found the average deal size for the year dropped $2.5M per deal to $13.1M since the mid-year mark. The largest funding deals in Q3 2014 include Proteus Digital Health ($52M), Teladoc ($50.3), and Chunyu ($50M). Analytics and big data startups raked in $381M leading the
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Rock Health: Digital Health Funding Breaks $2.3B In First Half of 2014
Digital health funding totals $2.3B in the first half of 2014 according to recent 2014 Midyear Digital Health Funding Report by Rock Health. Rock Health, provider of full-service funding to promising entrepreneurs breaking into healthcare today released their 2014 Midyear Digital Health Funding Report, an in-depth analysis report of digital health funding in first half of 2014. The report found funding of digital health companies continued to grow overall, totaling $2.3B in the first half of
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Digital Health Funding Reaches Record Levels in Q1 2014
Digital health funding topped $700M in the first quarter of 2014, an all-time high for funding in a single quarter, according to new research by Rock Health.
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